All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 12 2006 // Maryland is moving to address the higher costs of insurance for urban drivers, with passage of recent legislation requiring insurers to regularly review their rating territories and streamlining the process for protesting...
Apr 4 2006 // A Gaithersburg man has been sentenced in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County after having pleaded guilty to felony insurance fraud last October, according to Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr.The...
Mar 29 2006 // In a letter to the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and to the New Jersey Citizens United Reciprocal Exchange (CURE), Maryland Insurance Commissioner R. Steven Orr dismissed allegations by those organizations that...
Mar 27 2006 // J. Glenn Beall Jr., a prominent Republican officeholder and successful insurance agent, died at the age of 78.Beall served in the Maryland House of Delegates and the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1970, he was elected...
Mar 20 2006 // In the Northeastern and Atlantic states, elected politicians are in the thick of deciding on legislation that could affect insurers, insurance agents and their insureds.New Jersey lawmakers are considering restoring...
Mar 16 2006 // Jurors in Greenbvely, Maryland deliberating the federal arson case of two men accused of setting fires to a Charles County housing development said Monday that they are deadlocked on both defendants.After deliberating over...
Mar 14 2006 // Witnesses who had been sexually abused as children offered what Maryland House Speaker Michael Busch described as “gut wrenching” testimony in Annapolis on behalf of legislation that would extend the cutoff...
Mar 9 2006 // A home under construction that was hit by a fire in July burned again in what Marylanders investigators believe is the latest in a series of suspicious blazes in the neighborhood.The pre-dawn fire did about $500,000 in...
Mar 7 2006 // Lawmakers in Annapolis are considering legislation to mandate that cigarettes sold in Maryland meet tough new fire safety requirements.The insurance industry is backing the measure (HB 1300) that is now before the House...
Feb 21 2006 // Insurers for the company that ran the water taxi that capsized in the Inner Harbor, killing five people, sued the U.S. Coast Guard on Friday, claiming the military branch certified the taxi for too many passengers.The...
Feb 20 2006 // A group of retailers has filed suits challenging laws in Maryland and New York that were enacted to pressure employers to spend a minimum amount on their employees’ health benefits. The Retail Industry Leaders...
Feb 8 2006 // A group of retailers has filed suits challenging laws in Maryland and New York that were enacted to pressure employers to spend a minimum amount oin employees’ health benefits.The Retail Industry Leaders Association...
Feb 7 2006 // M&T Insurance Agency, Inc. has acquired Hess Egan Hagerty & L’Hommedieu, Inc., a commercial insurance and surety brokerage agency based in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with additional offices in Pennsylvania and...
Feb 6 2006 // Maryland’s highest court has handed a victory to the welding industry by ruling that the scope of the pollution liability exclusion in a business insurance policy does not encompass welding rod liability. In...
Feb 5 2006 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn has asked Delaware businesses to submit requests for classification changes for workers’ compensation. According to Denn, some business owners have said they have been...
Feb 2 2006 // Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr. reported that George and Barbara Meekins of Cambridge, Maryland have been arrested after being charged with felony theft and conspiracy to commit felony insurance fraud and...
Jan 22 2006 // Maryland became the first state to pass legislation requiring retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to spend a minimum amount on health care for its employees or pay the difference in taxes as the Democrat-controlled...
Jan 22 2006 // PeopleMaryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., has selected R. Steven Orr to serve as Maryland Insurance Commissioner. He succeeds Alfred W. Redmer, who resigned in October 2005 to join the private sector. Orr, 53, most...
Jan 19 2006 // On Jan. 6, Maryland’s highest court handed a victory to the welding industry by ruling that the scope of the pollution liability exclusion in a business insurance policy does not encompass welding rod liability.In...
Jan 18 2006 // Usually snow and ice are the culprits this time of year in the Northeast for problems with the weather.Wednesday, though, proved to be Mother Nature offering a different problem for residents. Winds, in some cases...